An attorney for a former mob underboss, who alerted authorities of a possible grave in Oakland Township for Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa, said his client believes Hoffa’s body is there “100 percent.”

Novi based attorney David Chasnick came to the site of the Hoffa excavation search warrant to speak for his client, Anthony “Tony Z” Zerilli, 85.

Zerilli was at the site for a short period of time on Monday afternoon, but left shortly after seeing swarms of reporters.

Speaking on behalf of Zerilli, Chasnick said, “Mr. Zerilli is thrilled that this has finally come to an end. ... The Hoffa family may finally have some closure. ... The Hoffa family may get peace from this from what they discover over in the field.”

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Chasnick mentioned that Zerilli has a manuscript online detailing how Hoffa was brought to the area at Adams and Buell roads and buried alive.

This site is the most recent dig scheduled by Oakland County Sheriff’s Office authorities, in partnership with the FBI, in hopes of finding Hoffa’s still missing body.

The manuscript says that, after Hoffa’s disappearance, three local mobsters drove him to what was then an old house with an old barn on the property on Buell Road.

The manuscript states, “As soon as they pulled near the barn, Hoffa was dragged out of the car, bound and gagged. A shallow hole was already dug in the barn floor. ... (One of the men) picked up a shovel and cracked Hoffa over the head with it.”

Zerilli writes that Hoffa put up a fight and was hit several more times. They reportedly threw him in the hole and buried him alive.

“He wasn’t shot, he wasn’t stabbed, nothing like that,” said Zerilli in the manuscript.

A cement slab of some sort was placed on top of the dirt to make certain he was not going to be discovered. And that was it. End of story, according to the manuscript.

Chasnick said that Zerilli had been in talks with the FBI for at least seven months up to that Monday afternoon. He included that Zerilli’s handwritten manuscript could be found at hoffafound.com.

Monday’s story drew the attention of not only media, but also several residents passing by and even prosecutors with extensive organized crime knowledge.

Keith Corbett, a former federal prosecutor who has followed at least two previous Hoffa digs, said that even if Hoffa’s body is found, prosecution tied to the case is remote because all five people named in the disappearance are dead.

He mentioned that Macomb County resident Giacomo “Black Jack” Tocco, 85, the convicted mob boss of a Detroit organized crime family, at one point owned the land on Buell Road under land contract. Tocco is Zerilli’s first cousin. But Corbett said he does not know who the current landowner is.

Organized crime expert Scott Burnstein, author of “True Crime Chronicles,” has been following the Hoffa case for years.

He said he was told by very credible sources that although the property isn’t owned by Tocco anymore, Tocco had sold the property to an acquaintance that could possibly be friendly with Tocco and his associates.

“As a result, the FBI might have had some trouble getting access to the property — possibly one of the reasons it could have taken several months to get out here,” said Burnstein.

Burnstein said “there’s no question that Tony Zerilli is the most well informed person with the most access and ability to shed the most light to ever come forward. He was a very well respected and highly placed member of organized crime, both locally and nationally.”

One passerby Dan Lennon of Rochester said, when it comes to Hoffa’s disappearance, he’s heard it all.

“I’ve heard he’s in the concrete at Yankee Stadium, Giants Stadium, but really what would they do if they found him?” said Lennon.

Hoffa disappeared from what was then Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township on July 30, 1975.